Sunday Sermon: What God Expects From His Church

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What God Expects From His Church

“Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed them. But when the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” they were indignant.

“Do you hear what these children are saying?” they asked him.

“Yes,” replied Jesus, “have you never read,

“‘From the lips of children and infants
you, Lord, have called forth your praise’?”
— Matthew 21:12-16 (NIV)

My House Shall be called:

  1. House of Purity

  2. House of Prayer

  3. House of Power

  4. House of Praise

“Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,”
— Ephesians 4:15 (NIV)
“Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord?
Or who may stand in His holy place?

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,
Nor sworn deceitfully.”
— Psalm 24: 3-4 (NKJV)

Sunday Sermon: Secretly Slipped In Among You

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Secretly Slipped In Among You

“ For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”
— Jude 4 (NIV)
“To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.”
— Jude 24-25 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: Happy Family

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Happy Family

“But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”
— Joshua 24:15 (NIV)
“Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.”
— Proverbs 17:1 (NIV)
“Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
— Genesis 1:26 (NIV)
“But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.”
— 1 Corinthians 7:2 (NIV)

Sunday Sermon: A Peaceful Church

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A Peaceful Church

“Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.”
— Hebrews 13:4 (NIV)
“There he met a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,”
— Acts 18:2 (NIV)
“Paul stayed on in Corinth for some time. Then he left the brothers and sisters and sailed for Syria, accompanied by Priscilla and Aquila. Before he sailed, he had his hair cut off at Cenchreae because of a vow he had taken.”
— Acts 18:18 (NIV)
“and because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.”
— Acts 18:3 (NIV)
“Meanwhile a Jew named Apollos, a native of Alexandria, came to Ephesus. He was a learned man, with a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and he spoke with great fervor and taught about Jesus accurately, though he knew only the baptism of John. He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they invited him to their home and explained to him the way of God more adequately.”
— Acts 18:24-26 (NIV)